This Week in White Supremacy #77 | Trump Jokes With Rally-Goer Who Said Migrants Should Be Shot

While the audience laughed at the insinuation of shooting migrants at the border Wednesday night, the suggestion was made by the president not too long ago. Days before the November 2018 midterms, Trump suggested that migrants could be shot at the border if they throw rocks. ~ Lizzie Helmer on IJR.com

Jackie Beatty on Twitter: “I’ve never seen students use the passive voice more than when they write about slavery. Slaves “were bought”; they “were treated as property”; they “were brutalized.” The perpetrators of these actions are invisible. And I’m not blaming them. We just have a lot of work to do.” http://bit.ly/2PUw2Nv

Jeff Merkley on Twitter: “I’m heartbroken that another child has died while in U.S. custody. The boy was at the same Texas facility that turned me away when I tried to view the conditions inside. I’ve called on HHS for an immediate investigation. These places should NEVER exist in our America.” http://bit.ly/2PSrneS

Kristen Clarke on Twitter: “In Tennessee, the Speaker’s Chief of Staff allegedly exchanged messages w/ racial slurs and his office may have been engaged in a scheme to frame a Black activist. It’s in this toxic environment that lawmakers adopted a new voter suppression measure. We’re suing to stop them!” http://bit.ly/2Q19N8M

4 Little Girls Died In The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing In 1963. A 5th Survived | Here & Now https://wbur.fm/2PWist9

DeliaChristina on Twitter: “But somehow this man sized can of Chef Boy R Dee will say he was ‘afraid’ of this skinny black girl and her mouth, and will say her mouth was ‘resisting’ arrest and that’s why he had to fling her into the air & body slam her to the ground because he has a small & he’s fragile” http://bit.ly/2PSsqeO

Rep. John Lewis Admits He’s Less Hopeful in 2019 Than He Was During the Civil Rights Era http://bit.ly/2PWX1YO

Nearly half of white Republicans say it bothers them to hear people speaking foreign languages – The Washington Post https://wapo.st/2PUbi8A

[THREAD] Judith Browne Dianis on Twitter: “As a cop was behind me for 10 miles my way to drop my 16yo daughter at school I was once again faced with anxiety. I dropped my visor so he couldn’t stop me for the crack in the window. My kid said he’s driving kind of close. I agreed. I made sure I wasn’t going over the speed” http://bit.ly/2Q4BtcZ

AND NOW FOR SOME GOOD NEWS

How to Explain the Holocaust in One Simple Statistic, Plus: The surprisingly good news about Muslims and Jews in America http://bit.ly/2PWiktF

Beacon Press: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History – “A bracing corrective to a national mythology” (New York Times) that has been created about the civil rights movement http://bit.ly/2PV7xQd

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